Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-03-23

BE sure you come as early as you can on
Thursday; Millicent Is always so much
better when she has had an hour with
you"
Having kissed Nadine, Of whom in
deed she is extremely fond, Mrs. Brand
ushers her down the staircase and through
the hall.
CHAPTER XII.
ssThe thing is how to discover him.
Those fellows nowadays are so difficult
to unear.h, and our detective system IS so
painfully inefficient"
~ don't want him." says Millicent,
who is looking very pretty and fragile
in her invalid gown of white cashmere
and lace, 81 senly sWant mys saR2higess,
MAS saving ing to n auntie only this morning
what a very remarkable thing it Is, that
both Lady Valworth-your mother
and I should have been made prey OF
burglars"
"Odd! The same thought struck me
only this morning." says Grant, show
ing all his white teeth as he smiles.
csWhat bite he could give, thinks his
fiancee, watching him. Quite coinct-
dence, ehs But it must be acknowledged
your loss is even greater than hers.
Those sapphires were unrivaled, and Will
fetch high price anywhere"
"Your loss, too, Grant,, " says MRS.
Brand. "Your future wife''-with
smile at Millicent-"will lose little OF
her prestige now she has ceased to be the
possessor of these famous jewels.
''My future wife," says Grant, grace
fully, twill not need the addition OF any
Jewels to make her the most beautiful
woman in England"
s'Ye gods" cries Miss Grey, springing
suddenly to her feet and rushing across
the room to a mirror. cam I that?
The most beautiful woman in England!
Am that now, my good Grant? Or is
it the fact of being your wife that will
make me so"'
"Now, of course. And then. too, I
hope"
"Wrong now, at all events, my
friend" after an exhaustive examina-
ton Of her pretty form in the mirror
II know some one at this very moment
who is unspeakably better worth locking
at than I am"
'tLady Landing"'
"No! prefer myself to her. was
thinking of my little friend-my youth
full instructress-Nadine Roche. BY the
bye, what singular thing that you have
never seen her."
"Quite as singular that she has never
seen me-"
"She did-once."
Boyle turns straight round and looks
at her. He had been teasing the parrot
up to this. Though he does not speak,
something in his face compels her to an
swer him as though he had done so.
"Yes-once, really; SO you are not as
unknown to fame as you imagine"
"She told you so.''
"She confessed as much. But, as you
seem modest about it, perhaps 1t will
comfort you to learn that what she did
see was only the back of your head, and
q bit of your nose. You know, If you
will wear your nose so long you cannot
expect it to altogether escape observa-
ton"
Grant, laughs.
$50 that was all she sawi She can have
no idea then what good looking fellow 1
am," he says, with mischievous shrug.
'Not the slightest. Your persistent re-
fusal to oblige oil your admirers by sit
ting to photographer has put it out OF
my power to give Nadine some faint idea
of your charms.
"Just as well; she might have been
overpowered by them," returns Grant,,
who has gone back to his task Of reduc-
ing the parrot to state of frenzy.
mot that I believe in photographs"
goes on Millicent. "There is Lefty Lums-
den, she looks like Venus on card
board-like dairymaid in the flesh."
''To say nothing of Mrs. DENLY, who
looks like saint in the flesh, and like
Bacchante, as portrayed by Dessemains.
I'm rather glad I'm out Of 1t. rejoice
to think my face is still my own. Photos"
with curious little laugh-"are dan
gerons."
eff every one thought that the detec-
tiyes would be oftener at fault than they
are," says Mrs. Brand. photographs
ave been the means Of bringing many
criminals to justice"
"As have said-they are dangerous"
replies.her nephew.
IL wish we had some picture Of the
wretch who has robbed Millicent."
"But you see you haven't"
"You take it very easily-yet you must
regret the jewels, Grant," says MIS-.
IL,
nothing now should be thought of but
the irreparable loss her niece has sus-
tanned, and who regards the present
frivolity as being distinctly in bad taste,
considering all things. Indeed, she
would have considered it hardly out of
place if some one had pulled down the
blinds and put muffling on the knocker.
II assure you I do not regret them. I
have nothing to regret" returns he,
laughing lightly. Then he looks at Mil
ucent. "How can find room for regret
when I see my cousin safe and well?"
Millicent is as touched by his manner
as it would be possible for him to move
her.
"CeHaiSy he bears the loss Of those
Jewels very well," she says to herself;
land he used to be their most extrava-
CANT admirer. Sometimes it irritated me
to think he looked upon them with pro-
prietorial eye, but after all believe !
wronged him. If they werc still in my
possession or in his he could not be moro
unconcerned.'
She gives him little kindly glance as
a reward for this, which seems to afford
him some secret amusement.
"The thing that puzzles me" goes on
Mrs Brand, who cannot keep her mind
off tho subject, "is how the miscreant
got in. Certainly Brown confesses he is
not in the habit of putting up the chain
at night-a most reprehensible neglect, for
which have severely censured him; but,
admitting that, I do not see how the burg
lar could have had door key exactly
Ike ours. 1t is one of q most peculiar
pattern; poor Mr.. Brand quite prided him
self on it,
"Thc more peculiar, the easier to take
an impression of it," says Grant.
"To take an impression?-to get false
key made, But that means you would
suspect the servants. I could not do
that; they are all old servants-old
friends, indeed, might almost say"
"You are like my mother. She will not
believe the servants were implicated in
the diamond robbery at Valworth; yet
If she had taken my advice recovery
might have been effected. Mind, do not
say it would" says Capt. Boyle, who
seems determined to give everyone q
chance; 81 only say it might"
"But-but surely you would not at
tach suspicion to Brown" says Mrs.
Brand, nervously, who is easily swayed.
"There are other servants in the house